Proverbs 23:10

Touch thou not the terms, ( or the boundary stones, of the property) of little children; and enter thou not into the field of fatherless and motherless children.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

In Context

9Speak thou not in the ears of unwise men (or Speak thou not in the ears of the unwise); for they shall despise the teaching of thy speech.

11For the neighbour of them is strong, and he shall deem their cause against thee. (For their Friend is strong, and he shall judge their case against thee.)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed is he that over-beareth, or undoeth, the terms of his neighbour; and all the people shall say, Amen! (Cursed is anyone who turneth over, or moveth, his neighbour’s boundary stones; and all the people shall say, Amen!)

Job 22:9Thou lettest go widows void, or unhelped, (or Thou lettest widows go away void, or without help); and all-brakest the shoulders of fatherless children.

Job 24:9They did violence, and robbed fatherless and motherless children; and they spoiled, either robbed, the community of poor men (or and they stole from, or plundered, the poor).

Psalms 94:6They killed a widow and a comeling; and they have slain fatherless children and motherless. (They have killed widows and newcomers, or strangers; and they have slain the fatherless and the motherless, or the orphans.)

Jeremiah 7:5For if ye bless your ways, and your studies; if ye do doom betwixt a man and his neighbour; (But if ye mend your ways, and your deeds; if ye do rightly, or justly, between a man and his neighbour;)

Jeremiah 22:3The Lord saith these things, Do ye doom, and rightfulness, and deliver ye him that is oppressed by violence from the hand of the false challenger; and do not ye make sorry, neither oppress ye wickedly a comeling, and a fatherless child, and a widow, and shed ye not out innocent blood in this place. (The Lord saith these things, Do ye justice, and uprightness, and rescue ye him who is oppressed by violence from the hand of the oppressor; and do not ye make sorry, nor wickedly oppress ye, a newcomer, or a stranger, or a fatherless child, or a widow, and pour ye not out innocent blood in this place.)

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10

9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. We are here directed not to cast pearls before swine ( Matt. vii. 6 ) and not to expose things sacred to the contempt and ridicule of profane scoffers. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of divine things; but, 1. There are some that will make a jest of every thing, though it be ever so prudently and pertinently spoken, that will not only despise a wise man's words, but despise even the wisdom of them, that in them which… Read the whole commentary →

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